Bedstead



(No Model.)

W. L. BRAKE.

BIEDSTEAD.

No. 362,433. Patented May 3, 1887.

N. PETERS. Phumumngmpher, wammgmmp. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

VALTER LEVITT DRAKE, OF HAMPTON, NEV HAMPSHIRE.

BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,433, dated May 3, 1887.

Application tiled January 20, 1887. Serial No. 224,870. (No model.)

stead with a bedclothes-supporter applied thereto and in a condition for sustaining the clothes for the purpose of airing them. Fig. 4 is a front end `view showing the supporter in a folded state. Fig. 5 is a side View of the bedstead, showing the bedclothessupporter lin a partially-folded state and engaged with the hooks projecting from the foot-board.

The nature of my invention is deined in the claims hereinafter presented, the purpose of it being to support the bedclothes while they 'are in the process of being exposed for being aired.

In such drawings, A `denotes a bedstead of ordinary construction. To the upper part of the foot-board a of such bedstead there is connected by hinges b b two arms, A', which near their outer ends are joined by a rod, c, eX- tending through them, and a tubular bar, d,

, and two other arms, B, arranged with the said arms A', as represented. The arms B turn freely on the rod c, and are kept apart by the said bar d, and also by another such bar, c, eX- tending between and secured to them near their outer ends. To each of the bars B there is pivoted a strut, C, which at its lower end rests upon a step, D, projecting from the b edsteadframe. Suspended from the foot-board are two hooks, E, to engage with eyes or staples F, projecting inwardly from the bars B, as represented. l

When the clothes-supporter is in an unfolded state, and held therein by the struts, it answers as a means of sustaining the bedclothes for being aired, as they may be turned upward over the foot-board and upon such supporter. It may be held in a partiallyfolded state, .as shown in Fig. 5'by engaging the hooks with the eyes. l t renders unnecessary the usual custom of spreading the bedclothes upon chairs for the purpose of airing the said clothes.

I do not claim a bedstead and additions thereto as represented in the United States Patents Nos. 6,884,15,943, 257,0i4,and 31.7, 709, as in neither is there found an attachment like mine to a bedstead.

I claiml. The combination, with the bedstead, of the bedclothes-supporter, substantially as described, hinged to the foot-board of such bedstead and composed of two sets ofarms, their connecting-rods, tubular bars, and struts, with steps projecting from thefoot board, essentially as set forth.

2. The bedelothes-snpporter, substantially as described, consisting ofthe two sets of arms, their conneetingrods, tubular bars, and the struts, arranged and combined essentiallyV as set forth. v

3. The combination ofthe bedstead and the hooks and steps extending from its footboard, with the bedelothes-supporter, substantially as described, applied to such foot-board and consisting of the two sets of arms, their connecting-rods, tubular rods, and struts provided with staples or eyes projecting from the outer set of such arms, the said supporter having its inner set of arms hinged to the bedstead, and all being essentially as represented and for use, as described.

VALTER LEVITT BRAKE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

R. B. TORREY. 

